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How to use or else in a sentence

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Desire must be subordinate to reason, or else they will throw the individual out of balance and lead him into injustice and unhappiness.
One, from mid-March, tells me to hot-foot it back with the books or else they'll invoice me for them.
Make sure that your skin is completely dry before applying or else the tanner will go on unevenly.
All of the delicate strands of this structure have to fit, and fit precisely, or else malinvestment occurs.
However, my mind tends to frequently wander backwards into the past or else goes racing off into the future.
This is passed by a delicate traverse on the left to a scramble down and final chimney, or else is laddered also to the left.
You can't give it a ball and chain and train it like a dog, or else it just wouldn't be anarchy.
At the hint of logical puzzles we beat a retreat to mystery-mongering and fideism, or else throw in the towel and cast our lot with the skeptics.
I was lucky that I could play ball or else I probably would've been screwed.
Is it courage, or else mere ingenuousness, motivating Parnell's refusal to reconcile these domains?
Make sure that your work surface is perfectly dry or else the filo will stick and turn into mush.
Congress and the president were supposed to figure out how to cut the deficits or else they'd have a sequester, forced spending cuts.
Trained manpower is needed in debt recovery or else you end up losing business through uncouth behaviour exhibited by some hotheads.
He's usually drunk as a skunk, or else raising a big stink about something else.
It was a good thing Mrs. Scott's mom was so involved with her son, or else she'd have noticed the horror-struck expression on my face.
Those involved in such crashes often receive horrifying injuries or else end up dying a violent death.
Everything about the human body is either a retention of these basic characteristics, or else has been modified by evolution.
The volume of inward investment was drying up and money would have been switched to home-grown firms or else left undistributed.
He will be driven from learning by a lack of clothing, or else an empty tucker-box.
Before I went out of the car, I made sure that the recorder had a blank tape inside or else my project would be in jeopardy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In that disease the vast majority of cases die by asthenia, or else by sudden failure of the heart.
From boyhood up he is preparing it, or else he is quenching it in darkness.
Either the gate had been insecurely fastened or else the latch had been broken.
Then, very likely, they are moved to write, either automatically or else inspirationally.
If these had run out we should have had to go back to Jidda for coal, or else gone ashore in a boat and trudged up to Suez.
Evidently, therefore, the epistle was written either before the judaistic controversy arose or else long after it was over.
Ziyan caan appears to be used as a synonym of it, or else refers to a part of it.
I cannot get rid of the leavings of a cold I got a month ago, or else it is a new one.
She was entirely frigid or else so leery of men that she might as well have been one herself.
It will have to be remonetized by that time, or else it will not be legal tender.
Under great emotional excitement the auric flames move around in swift circling whirlpools, or else swirl away from a centre.
She was a lithe, strong woman, taller than he, or else she would have fallen.
That First Lieutenant of ours either has eyes in the back of his head or else the Sergeant is a tattletale.
Johnny Bold, by the help either of Mr. Rerechild or else by that of his coral and carrot-juice, got through his teething troubles.
Either the sergeant is in trouble, or else he's bagging a wagonload of game.
Our cossacks either killed the stragglers or else let them alone, just as it happened.
An' William Tell made a law that any man come to cut the tree they must not 'cratch their 'kin or else they would lose the cow.
We must either make the form variable, or else treat the word de-y-nous as a trisyllable.
Then there were addresses by alumnae students, or else speakers from abroad chosen for some distinction in authorship.
He probably had either a surname to be concealed or else unpronounceable to French lips.
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